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[PDF] Letter to UN Special Representative John Ruggie
The purpose of this letter is to clarify some of the legal issues underlying the concept of the State duty to protect against human rights abuses by non-State actors under international law... The United Kingdom agrees that certain treaty provisions may impose an express or implied duty on States to protect against non-State human rights abuses. However, it does not consider that there is a general State duty to protect under the core United Nations human rights treaties, nor that such a duty is generally agreed to exist as a matter of customary international law.